Southern Business Journal by The Southern Illinoisan

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SEPTEMBER 2015

USINESS URNAL

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BUSINESS JOURNAL “ONE REGION,

ONE VISION”

REGION,ONE VISION”

Internships A vital step in securing a job today

COVER STORY PAGE 12

INSIDE

Directory of Advertisers John A. Logan College .......... 10

SEPTEMBER 2015 BEING THE BOSS

FRANCES MURPHY

SIU GRAD TALKS ABOUT HIGHSPEED INTERNET, ADVANTAGES FOR CARBONDALE

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THE LIST

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TEN PLACES TO INTERN IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE FOR SEPTEMBER

BOOK REVIEW

SIX BOOKS TO READ ON LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESS

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INTERNSHIPS VITAL IN SECURING A JOB TODAY

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BOST AND ADRIAN MILLER FROM SIU

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PUBLIC RECORD

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

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Southern Illinois Healthcare 16 Southern Illinois University .. 13 Williamson County Airport ... 19

ON THE COVER

YOUR OPINION

Raymond James Financial Services .................11 SIU Credit Union ...................20

REAL ESTATE

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HAPPY HOUR BAN S

Pepsi MidAmerica ................ 18

THE INTERVIEW

BANKRUPTCIES AND BUILDING PERMITS

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BUSINESS GREAT FUTURES JOURNAL

START HERE!

“ONE REGION,ONE VISION”

OF CARBONDALE

ON THE COVER Southern Illinois Miners interns Callie Sloop and Anthony Giase coordinate positions before the pre-game activities at Rent One Park in Marion on August 11. Sloop is a senior marketing student at Indiana State in Terre Haute, Indiana. Giase is a graduate student studying sports administration at SIU. Photo by Richard Sitler, The Southern

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BUSINESS JOURNAL “ONE REGION,

ONE VISION”

The Southern Business Journal is a publication of The Southern Illinoisan. Contact us via mail at 710 N. Illinois Ave., Carbondale, IL 62901, or at P.O. Box 2108, Carbondale, IL 62903. Also reach us on the Web at www.sbj.biz and via email at SBJ@thesouthern.com. The Journal is published 12 times per year monthly and distributed by The Southern Illinoisan and www.thesouthern. com. Copyright 2015 by The Southern Illinoisan, all rights reserved. A subscription may be obtained by calling 618-529-5454 or 618-9973356, or by visiting our website.

Publisher John Pfeifer 618-351-5038 Editor Autumn Phillips 618-351-5033

Boys & Girls Club members enjoy a healthy free snack every day afterschool. The Club delivers programs to teach and reinforce healthy habits and positive life skills as part of every member’s Club experience. BGCC thanks The Blue Boar and Great Boars of Fire for helping make these programs possible as our Business of the Month for August, 2015.

Advertising Kim Fowler 618-351-5035 Design and Layout Rhonda May 618-351-5077

FROM THE

PUBLISHER

Sara: A story of an intern

t was mid-April and I suddenly had more summer projects to complete than I had people to complete them. Not an unusual circumstance today, but this was 20 years ago when I was still relatively new to feeling overwhelmed. Enter Sara. She was home for spring break of her sophomore year in college. She stopped into our office wondering if we offered internships. We didn’t, but we visited for a while. Sara explained her interest in writing and in obtaining some practical workplace experience. Thirty minutes later I had started an internship program. That’s all it took — a need, coupled with someone who had the initiative to go looking for an opportunity. Within a few weeks of Sara coming to work, the demands of our projects had been met head-on by the enthusiastic supply of her talent and ingenuity. She was great, and before leaving to return to school for her junior year, I extended an offer for her to intern with us over Winter Break and then again the following summer. In her second summer, she not only worked on existing projects, she spelled one of our writers while they were on vacation and instigated a couple of new things. Before she departed for her senior year, she had accepted my offer to come work for me full-time following graduation. Talk about an internship paying off. Sara worked for me for a couple of years before she outgrew the job. I was running a weekly shopping guide then rather than a daily newspaper, so advancement opportunities were non-existent. But every quarter, I receive an update in the mail that gives me a glimpse of what Sara has been doing. That update comes in the form of Cardinal Stritch Magazine. I receive the magazine because I got my MBA through Stritch. Sara is their Executive Editor. On days when the magazine comes, I attack it like a child in a candy shop. I quickly turn to each of Sara’s stories. And read. And smile. And it all started with an internship.

JOHN PFEIFER | PUBLISHER, SBJ

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BEING

THE BOSS

FRANCES MURPHY General Manager of the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery

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rances Murphy is the General Manager of the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery in Carbondale. He received his MBA from SIU and has more than 20 years of experience leading co-ops.

Q. What was your first job and what did you learn from it? A. My first job was delivering the Chicago

Today after school in the neighborhood where I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I learned many things, including how to accurately throw newspapers from a moving bicycle, dodging aggressive dogs and the importance of keeping customers happy.

Q. Did you have a mentor early in your career? A. Early in my career as a co-op general

manager, I was fortunate to have a mentor who is the general manager of a very successful co-op in North Carolina. We spent a lot of time together and I learned lessons about leadership from him that have served me to this day.

Q. What is the biggest management lesson you’ve learned in your years as a leader? A. There are many management lessons that

I have learned over the years. One is that it is almost impossible to over-communicate. This is difficult for me, as an introvert, but what you talk about becomes reality.

Q. What do you look for when you hire someone? Are there key interview questions that you ask? A. Here are a couple of questions that I ask a candidate for a management position: How would you describe your management and communication style? How would others describe your management style? Your communication style? Tell me about a time when you came into a new leadership

position and worked with a new staff. What steps did you take to assess the skills of the staff? What process did you use to introduce change?

Q. What is the best way to improve employee morale? A. I think the best way to improve morale is

for management to sincerely care about the needs and welfare of the employees. It is also important to be consistent in holding people accountable for following policies and meeting expectations for job performance.

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Q. What is your morning routine? How do you prepare yourself for the day? A. I stretch, meditate, run 3 miles or workout

at the gym, shower, and eat breakfast. It really does take all of that to get me ready for a work day.

Q. What career advice would you give to a someone just starting out in their work life? A. Have the end in mind when starting out.

Use personal visioning exercises to get clear about when and how you want to retire.

PHOTO BY BYRON HETZLER, THE SOUTHERN ‌

THE LIST

10 PLACES TO INTERN IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

RECOMMENDED

READING

Six books about leadership and success

THE PETER PRINCIPLE

BY LAURENCE J. PETER AND RAYMOND HULL The selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively — “managers rise to the level of their incompetence.”

REACHING THE TOP

BY ZIG ZIGLAR Ziglar shares his philosophy and his formula for success in two popular works. MIKE HENRY

YOU NEED TO BE A LITTLE CRAZY

BY BARRY J. MOLTZ This is a guide that is filled with his personal experiences in startups and the lessons he learned while pursuing his dream of being his own boss. GARY BOUHL

TAO TE CHING

THE LEAN STARTUP

BY LAO TZU

BY ERIC RIES

The book is based on his previous experience working in several U.S. startups, Ries claims that startups can shorten their product development cycles by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and what he calls validated learning. GARY BOUHL

The Tao Te Ching contains a lot of sage advice for leaders with an emphasis of working with the energy of the group rather than trying to dominate. This management philosophy may not be applicable to all work situations but fits well with the kind of smart, passionate people that co-ops attract. FRANCIS MURPHY

CAPTIVE WARRIORS: BY THOMAS J. SERGIOVANNI

From the book jacket: Col. Samuel R. Johnson, U.S. Air Force, was shot down in April 1966, while flying his 25th mission over North Vietnam. The book is the story of Colonel Johnson’s seven-year battle for his life, limbs, and sanity. MIKE BOST

MIKE HENRY Mike Henry is Carbondale Mayor and owner of Henry Printing. Gary Bouhl is the director of the Small Business Development Center at SIU. Francis Murphy is general manager at Neighborhood Co-op Grocery in Carbondale. Mike Bost is a U.S. Representiative.

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YOUR

OPINION

Why offer an internship? Internships a chance to learn political process

Internship with Speaker Madigan a unique opportunity

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hroughout my time serving the people of Southern Illinois, interns have played an important role in helping conduct the business of the office and serve the needs of our constituents. Regardless of whether it’s on the state or federal level, internships are an excellent chance for students to learn the political process. In my office, our interns interact closely with staff on legislative issues and work with constituents on a one-on-one basis, gaining valuable life experience in the process. Most of these young men and women have taken the tools they acquired during their internship and gone on to successful careers in various fields. For example, one of my first interns in the Illinois Legislature was Danville native Jodi Golden, who now is the Executive Director of the Illinois Capitol Development Board, overseeing the construction and renovation of state buildings. Another example of an intern doing great things with his opportunity to serve is Daniel Suess, a Greenville native entering his senior year at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Daniel took his background on a family farm and his major in Agribusiness Economics and became a valued researcher in MIKE BOST my Washington, D.C., office on agriculture-related issues. Because of his excellent work with my office, Daniel won the Paul Simon Memorial Scholarship from the Illinois State Society. Internships are great for two types of people: those who know what they want to do with their life, and those who don’t. If you’re passionate about a career path, an internship can open the door to following your dreams. If you are confused about which path to take in life, an internship can provide direction and self-assurance. I am proud of Jodi, Daniel, and all of our interns who have utilized their experience as a catalyst to launch a successful and productive career of their own. Everyone’s path is different, but an internship is a great first step. MIKE BOST is the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 12th Congressional district.

y name is Adrian Miller and I am the inaugural recipient of the Gene Callahan Internship. I was born and raised in Southern Illinois and owe a great deal of gratitude to not only Gene and his family, but to the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute for not only this opportunity but many others. This past semester, I spent five months on staff with the Speaker’s office as an intern. While many of the readers already discredit my internship due to who I interned for, I can truly say that there wasn’t a better place for me to be in order to get a better understanding of how Springfield works. I’m a firm believer that it is critical to get your feet wet, especially before entering the workforce. Whether that be through an internship or by filling an apprentice role that teaches you a new skill. While many will read this and think, “I did nothing aside from keeping the coffee fresh,” I would challenge that frame of thinking. While in Springfield, even as an intern, I felt that I played a critical role in helping the legislators perform their job, which I might add is no easy task. While there were the mundane tasks that not only come with an internship, but nearly every job, I realized it was all a part of the ADRIAN MILLER learning experience. I had a unique opportunity to provide research and assist in constituent outreach. Speaker Madigan taught me, “Learn that listening can be a great guide to choosing a future path and that Illinois has unlimited opportunities.” Looking back at the opportunity I realize how critical it is to provide young people like myself an opportunity to intern. Young people need these opportunities. If we don’t help our youth, we will not be ourselves in terms of moving Southern Illinois forward. We have a wonderful resource in our students here at SIU, and I don’t see any excuse why students don’t learn from successful businesses and leaders here in Southern Illinois. We have to do a better job in keeping people here and showing young people that there is a future here. I believe in Southern Illinois, but it is critical that everyone plays a role by stepping up and helping train Southern Illinois’s next generation of business owners and leaders. ADRIAN MILLER is the former student body president at SIU and student member of the SIU Board of Trustees.

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LIFTING HAPPY HOUR BAN helps business during slow times

chances of one being involved in a wreck, a wreck that could injure the impaired drivers as well as others sharing the road, he said. ‌“It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.” While bar owners in several regional That famous Alan Jackson/Jimmy cities said they embraced the new happy Buffet duet is a rallying cry for the hour law, those in Carbondale haven’t overworked and under-appreciated — a had the opportunity yet. That’s because well-worn line for the many who wish the city had an ordinance in place in to start drinking a little earlier than the addition to state law banning happy hour traditional start of “happy hour” at the within Carbondale’s limits. close of the work day. But Carbondale officials are likely to For the subject in the song, it’s only change that, open up happy hour in their 12:30 when he walks out of his hourly city soon as well. job, his boss having pushed him “over the On Aug. 6, the Carbondale Liquor limit.” Instead of calling him names, this Advisory Board voted to recommend that guy heads down to the pub for a pour of the Local Liquor Control Commission something tall and strong. put Carbondale’s policy in line with state Before July, there was no good time law, with one extra caveat: that estabanywhere for happy hour alcoholic drink lishments holding happy hour drink spespecials in Illinois. Happy hour – or sellcials keep the Carbondale Police Departing discounted drinks for a designated ment informed of their specials. number of hours on a given day – had Carbondale Mayor Mike Henry said Law enforcement hopes that remains premises or on its website seven days been outlawed in the state since 1989. the case throughout the region as happy he’s in favor of lifting the happy hour prior to the specified drink promotion. Under the former law, establishments hour drink specials take off as a market- restriction in his city. He said some bar Mary LaReau, manager of Brews were required to keep drink prices the owners have approached him about Brothers Taproom, in Murphysboro, said ing tool for Southern Illinois establishsame all day. hoping happy hour specials will entice she was eager to implement a happy hour ments. Deputy Brian Murrah with the A bar could have discount drinks, for Williamson County Sheriff’s Department people into their doors during the midinstance, on Wednesday, but those drinks at the bar behind the Jackson County to-late afternoon hours because colsaid officials had not noticed any probCourthouse known for its craft brews. would have to be the same discounted lege students are heading out later and “It’s nice to give people a little break,” lems within the county in the month price from open to close. since the law was changed directly tied to later, sometimes not until after 11 p.m., she said. The ban came about because public he said. happy hour specials. It’s also helped grow late afternoon safety officials had expressed concern Jacque Snyder, front house manager Still, Murrah cautioned that people business just in the few weeks the bar about people drinking too much, too at Fat Bottom Betty’s in Carbondale, need to drink responsibly, and that started offering drink specials, she said. fast during happy hour, hoping to take said she and the owner are hopeful the doesn’t change if the alcohol is disThe bar’s special remains the same advantage of the discounted drinks, city will change the ordinance and have counted. weekly. Between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on thereby causing more accidents and “Cheap alcohol doesn’t make you less been discussing implementing a happy Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunfatalities on the roadways. hour, when allowed to, three or four day, patrons receive $1 off cocktail drinks drunk,” he said. If a hurricane before Gov. Bruce Rauner reversed that law you go insane is necessary, by all means, days a week from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. when made from Red Eye moonshine, a prodon July 15, signing into law a bill passed business drops off between the lunch uct of Grand River Sprits in Carbondale, walk or get a ride. Besides the fact that to his desk by the General Assembly to crowd exiting and the after-work/dinner drunken driving can kill you or somebring back happy hour as bar and restau- and $1 off domestic beers. crowd arriving. “They see they’re going to save a little one else, it’s also hugely expensive, and rant owners clamored for the means to “I think it will help bars and restauthose few bucks saved on a drink won’t boost business during traditionally slow money, and it definitely entices them to rants around Carbondale as a whole,” make much of a dent in the thousands come in,” she said. hours in the afternoon. Snyder said. “Every restaurant in Carof dollars in legal feels facing you after a But does it entice them to drink too There are still some stipulations for bondale has that time where everything DUI charge. much? LaReau doesn’t think so, saying drink specials: Bars are restricted to Murrah noted that crashes and crashes slows down. It’ll help everybody.” those who are patrons of Brews Brothers, hosting happy hour no more than four causing fatalities are up in Williamson particularly the after-work crowd, are days per week, for 15 hours per week. County in 2015 compared to the previous molly.parker@thesouthern.com typically responsible with their alcohol, Happy hour cannot take place after 618-351-5079 and either don’t drink much, or arrange a year, as well as in many counties across 10 p.m., and happy hour drink specials the state. Drunken driving increases the must be advertised at the establishment’s ride home if needed. On Twitter: @MollyParkerSI MOLLY PARKER

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THE

INTERVIEW

Mike Brown

SIU grad talks about high-speed Internet, advantages for Carbondale ‌Editor’s Note: Mike Brown is the founder of The Brainzooming Group in Kansas City, Kansas. He received a master’s degree at SIU in 1986. He spoke in Carbondale in July about envisioning a gigabit city in Carbondale and how to work together to make it happen. He has worked closely with Kansas City’s Google Fiber project, guiding innovative uses of the fiber-optic high-speed Internet. The Brainzooming Group is a Kansas Citybased strategy firm focused on creating collaborative strategy for organizations across the public and private sectors.

Q. Is gigabit something that residents in Southern Illinois can look forward to as something that will provide real, viable jobs? A. Yes, I think so. In part, one of the

great things of faster Internet, and we are talking about gigabit city, is that it is basically 100 times faster Internet than any of us regularly experience. It isn’t always about what is physically in Carbondale, that capability provides connection to places and people all over the world. So maybe Carbondale is a regional hub for connectivity for economic leaders, cultural leaders or ideas and people that you can start to interact with and create new economic possibilities. I think we have seen in Kansas City where it has attracted new types of businesses that say they do a lot with images or tele-medicine. We have a pocket of doctors and people in rural communities that have to drive a long way to see doctors, and because of that, they may not come as often. Now, with this Internet, not only can the patient see the doctor on a real-time basis, but the doctors can look at X-rays on a real-time basis. A lot of times the question is what can we attract, but I think the connectivity and faster Internet allows us to start to reach out and start to pull in some pieces that may not be physically here, but can help drive the economy in new ways.

side of the state line. In going after the Google Fiber, both cities actually worked together and the mayors were essentially joined at the hip. This dialogue across the state line has really been transformational. The speed didn’t make that connection between the two of them, but it brought them together for the greater good and got people thinking about the entire state. It has also put Kansas City on some lists that we never would have been on before. Kansas City is now No. 10 on a list showing the top creative cities in the U.S. Is Kansas City really No. 10? I don’t know. Everybody has their own criteria, but six or seven years ago, you would have never seen Kansas City on that list. There has been a buzz and an attractiveness that I think happens in this window right now where not everybody has this. It has brought entrepreneurs from the coasts and has spurred new business ideas that there hasn’t been there before. People need a lot of bandwidth either for images or other things that now it is an enabler to their business.

Q. Other than tele-medicine, how else can this be used to help rural areas like Southern Illinois? A. Farmers who may be on broad-

band right now and not getting all the advantages in crop data or yield data that they upload once a week. If you Q. What are some of the uses seen think about a combine or tractor feeding information on moisture content in Kansas City, after installation of and yield and looking at this in comhigh-speed Internet? parisons and feeding back information A. That is always one of the tough about the crops, it now becomes a very questions because they aren’t always smart operation. Again, our farmers high visibility things when they hapabsolutely need this. ... It creates a pen. One of the biggest things intermuch more reliable stream of data than estingly, has been politically, in that a smart phone. I may have a good signal Kansas City sits with a state line down near the road, but the further and furthe middle of it. There is Kansas City, ther I get away, that signal may start to Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, go away. With broadband, fiber or some with communities on both sides that sort of mesh data, I have much more of are fighting over the businesses on each a uniformed connectivity so I can be

feeding that information back and forth all the time.

Q. How do we overcome the economic digital divides? A. We have done work to look at that

specifically. We held a community event to say you need to help us where the issues are and best way to address it. Some of the things we heard was there are some young people who have the expertise and tools and they are wired in. But, there are older people who have experience and the wherewithal that the young people don’t. Can you create mentor/mentee relationships across the generations? They each need something that each has.

Q. Has there been a visible economic growth in business since the implementation of Google Fiber? A. You can probably see more than it shows up in the numbers. The Kauffman Foundation is based in Kansas City, and they have cultivated a lot of nationally discussions of entrepreneurs coming together. One of the things we have seen is a lot of shared working spaces around where high-speed Internet is. There is work going on in Kansas City reflective of work going on along the coasts. You get the right people together and they are going to start having interactions, and things will start to happen.

Q. Does it lead to more incentives for students and young people to stay in the area? A. I think it leads people to stay and I

think it leads more people coming in. We have seen people come in from the coasts. When your community starts to show up on those lists, it creates more pride within themselves. DUSTIN DUNCAN, THE SOUTHERN

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REAL

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILES

2625 Skyline, Alto Pass List price: $639,748

‌216 Washington St., Carbondale Three things to know: 1. It’s in Carbondale’s Enterprise Zone and TIF 2 District. 2. Sale includes all restaurant equipment, tables and seating. 3. Recently rewired, roofed, new heat/air.

Three things to know: 1. Skyline View Cabins and home along the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail in Union County with some of the best views in the region. 2. Home is 2,233 square feet with large windows, deck, hot tub; cabins are 2 or 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, washer and dryer, kitchen. 3. Site has 20 acres and has room for more cabins or for establishing a vineyard.

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List price: $79,900

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Three things to know: 1. Was Dillinger’s Feed Store Grain Elevators site. 2. Lot is 3.27 acres, includes elevators and some buildings. 3. It’s on U.S. 51, two miles north of Carbondale and has been a landmark for years.

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STORY

INTERNSHIPS VITAL IN SECURING A JOB TODAY DUSTIN DUNCAN | THE SOUTHERN‌‌

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etting a job without experience in today’s job market can be a daunting task. The best way to gain experience in a particular field is an internship. Matt Purdy, employer relations coordinator at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, said one of the big myths in SIU Career Services is that students don’t have to worry about their career until they are finished with school. “There is nothing that is further from the truth,” he said. Students looking for internships can find a vast list of employers looking for interns either for college credit or a summer stipend by Googling “internships near me” or visiting Internships.com and Internmatch.com. Purdy suggests it is just as easy to walk into his office and talk to him about the student’s needs. He tells students to use internships to find their path in a certain career field because very few people know exactly what they want to do when they first get to college. “Internships are very valuable to know if they want to go down that path,” Purdy said. “It is more valuable to get into something for one or two months as an intern and finding out they don’t want to do that. That is so much better to find out as sophomore or junior, than a month after graduation.” The odds, according to numbers at SIU, are much greater in achieving employment after college with an internship than without one. Purdy said about 75 percent of undergraduate students coming out of SIU who completed internships had a successful outcome. He said that number drops to about 60 percent for those students who did not complete an internship.

RICHARD SITLER, THE SOUTHERN‌ RICHARD SITLER, THE SOUTHERN‌ Kaedi Robbins, a junior at Carbondale High Participants and their family members attend a ceremony on August 12 recognizing the completion School, shakes hands with Kristin King on of an internship program with Southern Illinois Healthcare. August 12 at a ceremony recognizing participants completing an internship program with Southern Illinois Healthcare. King started “A college experience is not unlike mar- he said. “An opening and a closing is also the program 11 years ago for high school riage or parenting,” he said. “If you give it a nice touch, and have a subject line.” students to learn about the healthcare field. He also advocates for doing some the bare minimum, that is what it will give research on the company and understandback. If you go above and beyond, that ing what it does. He said an intern apply- program. It allows high school students degree will pay you exponentially over ing should also understand why they want interested in the health care field to job time, in my opinion.” shadow professionals in their field. to the position. Once the student has decided to apply “They are the future of our workforce,” After receiving the internship, the for a certain internship, there are skills said SIH employment manager Kristin that must be obtained in order to have an interview process involves good eyecontact, good handshake and being able to King. “I am not going to wait until they advantage in the hiring pool. are ready. speak well about yourself, Purdy said. A Forbes article advises students to “I am going to try and build a rela“We advocate talking in a mirror double and triple-check their resume. tionship with you before you are even The article says to make sure there are no and recording yourself on a cell phone spelling errors and to have somebody else answering questions,” he said. “It may be interested in health care, then the seed read it. Also, don’t put inaccuracies on the awkward, but it will go a long way during is planted in your mind and (helps to) develop that loyalty to SIH.” an interview.” resume by inflating job titles. She said the health care organization College students aren’t the only ones Purdy said applicants will be judged hires former interns from the program that could benefit from an internship. on their written communication skills, often, and there are success stories where There are a few high school programs in including the email sent where the cover former students are now part of the manSouthern Illinois, such as the Southern letter and resume is attached. agement team at SIH. “Don’t use ‘LOL’ or use any text speak,” Illinois Healthcare summer internship

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Southern Illinois Miners marketing intern Callie Sloop briefs radio deejay Kellee ‘Stella’ Estell, of Carterville, about throwing out the first pitch at the Miners game on August 11 at Rent One Park in Marion. Looking on is honorary bat boy Mason Kell, 10, of Herrin. Sloop is senior marketing student at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana and her parents live in Marion. PAGE 14 SEPTEMBER 2015 SOUTHERN BUSINESS JOURNAL

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Southern Illinois Miners intern Rachel Stroud of Marion preps Miners Manager Mike Pinto to speak to the crowd before the game against the Evansville Otters on August 11 at Rent One Park in Marion. Stroud is a business management student at Greenville College.

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mployers should look at interns as part of the future of their business, says Matt Purdy, employer relations coordinator at Southern Illinois University. He said employers can use interns to tap into the college market and obtain newer ways of thinking. Also, younger interns provide the company with knowledge about social media and what is popular with the younger crowd. Then, there are operations such as the Southern Illinois Miners, which leans on its interns for large amounts of work when the baseball team has a home game. Casey Petermeyer, director of extra events and stadium operations, said there are about 20 to 25 interns between full-time and game day interns, and they do everything the full-time staff does. “Our ticket guys sell tickets every single day. They call people trying to sell season tickets or mini game plans. The marketing team handles all the promotions. They go out and deliver the pocket schedules and they are our face out in the community,” he said. The Miners have high expectation from their interns, and Petermeyer said that is what it takes to run a stadium during a game. “This place wouldn’t run without interns,” he said. “We play 56 home games in three-and-a-half months. That is time it takes to pull of a game from production, tickets and operations.”

training that would be similar to that which would be given in an educational environment, including the ‌Plaintiffs were unpaid interns on the Fox Searchlight clinical and other hands-on training provided by educational institutions. distributed film Black Swan. The U.S. District Court 3. The extent to which the internship is tied to for the Southern District of New York found the Black the intern’s formal education program by integrated Swan interns were employees under the Fair Labor coursework or the receipt of Standards Act and New York Labor Law. The court academic credit. applied a version of the U.S. Labor Department’s six 4. The extent to which the factor test, which was derived from the 68-year-old internship accommodates Supreme Court decision Walling v. Portland Terminal the intern’s academic comCo., 330 U.S. 148 (1947), to determine whether the mitments by corresponding interns fell within an exception for unpaid trainees. The to the academic calendar. six factor test is whether: 5. The extent to which 1. The internship, even though it includes actual the internship’s duration is operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to limited to the period in which training which would be given in an educational envithe internship provides ronment; the intern with benefi2. The internship experience is for the benefit of cial learning. the intern; 6. The extent to which the 3. The intern does not displace regular employees, intern’s work complements, but works under close supervision of existing staff; ZACH RICH rather than displaces, the 4. The employer that provides the training derives work of paid employees while no immediate advantage from the activities of the providing significant educaintern; and on occasion its operations may actually tional benefits to the intern. be impeded; 7. The extent to which the intern and the employer 5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the understand that the internship is conducted without conclusion of the internship; and entitlement to a paid job at the conclusion of the 6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship. Under this test, the intern is not an employee if they internship. The district court balanced the six factors and found are the primary beneficiary of the internship. This flexible approach balances all the circumthat the two interns were improperly classified as stances, so that no one factor is dispositive. The court unpaid interns. found that the primary beneficiary approach reflects On appeal, the issue before the Second Circuit was the purpose of the internship, the relationship between “when is an unpaid intern entitled to compensation the intern’s formal education and the internship. An as an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act internship is to integrate formal classroom education (FLSA)?” Instead of using the Department of Labor’s with real-world practical skill development. The prisix factor test, the court applied the primary beneficiary test to determine whether the employer or intern mary beneficiary test better demonstrates the purpose of the modern internship in today’s economy rather was the primary beneficiary of the relationship. The than the Labor Department’s six factor test. primary beneficiary test (1) focuses on what the intern It is advisable that employers: receives in exchange for their work and (2) it allows for 1. Be cautious, because the Department of Labor will flexibility in the court’s examination of the economic likely continue to take an aggressive approach against reality between the intern and employer. The court articulated a list of non-exhaustive factors to aid in the employers in such circumstances. 2. Note that this is a Second Circuit ruling and is only determination of whether a worker is an employee for persuasive to federal courts in Illinois and Missouri. FLSA purposes. The factors include: Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., 2nd Cir., No. 1. The extent to which the intern and the employer clearly understand that there is no expectation of com- 13-4478-cv 7/2/2015. pensation. Any promise of compensation, express or implied, suggests that the intern is an employee — and W. Zachary Rich is a third year law student at SIU School of Law. He is from Benton and works in the Carbondale office of Sandberg Phoenix & vice versa. 2. The extent to which the internship provides von Gontard P.C.

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aving an internship as a student who is thirsty for knowledge and experience is valuable, but employers must be sure to provide an environment where the intern is getting the most out of it. Casey Petermeyer, director of extra events and stadium operations for the Southern Illinois Miners, said his staff of interns has a hand in every facet of running the stadium during a baseball game. “(Interns) are a vital key to everything we do here. They are interns in name only,” he said. Petermeyer said the Miners expect a lot from their interns, especially on game days where interns are expected to be at Rent One Park in Marion at 8:30 a.m. and stay through the conclusion of that night’s game, which is usually about 11:30 p.m. “Those long hour days are what it takes to cut it in baseball,” he said. “A lot of times, the internship lets the intern know if they want to work in sports or not. All sports are different, but a lot you work the odd hours such as nights, weekends, holidays and they are here for a lot of that stuff.” Petermeyer said the internship is a good stepping stone for those wanting to have a career in the business side of sports. “Having this internship in Minor League Baseball with how many hours we work and how long the days are, it shows other employers that you are driven and you really want work in the sports world,” he said. Rachel Stroud, a marketing intern with the Miners and a student at Greenville College, in Greenville, is on her second internship with the Miners and discovered a love for what she does. “I didn’t know what wanted to do when I took this internship last summer,” she said. “But I knew I wanted to work somewhere and do something, so I did this and I fell in love with it.” She said the skills she has learned with the baseball team has prepared her for future endeavors, whether it is with the Miners or somewhere else. At Southern Illinois Healthcare, the Summer Internship Program gives high school students a golden opportunity to

RICHARD SITLER, THE SOUTHERN‌ Kaedi Robbins, a junior at Carbondale High School, is presented a certificate of completion by Sara Hilton and Kristin King on August 12 at a ceremony recognizing participants completing an internship program with Southern Illinois Healthcare.King started the program 11 years ago for high school students to learn about the healthcare field. see the medical field from a close perspective. Kristin King, SIH employment manager, said the internship is designed for high school student who have any interest in health care. The organization designs an eight-week program for the students throughout the summer that includes job shadowing a wide variety of medical professionals. “We wanted to get our area students involved and engaged,” King said. “It is one of the only programs that you don’t need experience for, because we are there to give them the experience.” She said the students go through a two-day orientation to learn the ins and outs of working in a hospital, meaning

privacy laws, how to be a professional and being sanitary. After those two days, they get scheduled, start their assignments and they are treated like SIH employees after that. They are in the operating rooms next to the surgeon scrubbing up as they are about to perform surgery, King said. The students get a jump start on college with the credit for the internship. They are also responsible for daily journal entries, critiques on medical journals and a reflection paper that will be presented in front of their peers. “The students will go through it and find what they love and now they will spend their time focusing on a particular niche in health care,” King said. “There

will also be students who will realize health care isn’t for them after going through the internship.” Kaedi Robbins, SIH intern and junior at Carbondale Community High School, said she loved her experience and learned more than she imagined. “It just enhanced my interest in health care further,” she said. ”It just made me want to learn more and do more.” She spent most of her time in the operating room watching procedures both big and small. She got to witness a heart surgery and was able to hold a gallbladder. dustin.duncan@thesouthern.com 618-351-5823 on twitter: @zd2000

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